So what is so good about Mondays????? may I ask???

Hmmmmmmmm I can fill my mind up instantly with umpteen things I could hate about Mondays but why not keep it on the upbeat and positive? just MAYBE it would turn my Monday around cause I need THIS MONDAY to turn around QUICK!!! after all I almost died on Friday when I got hit by a jerk on a bike while I was crossing the street a few blocks up from the workplace trying to get to the bank... so I MUST turn this around and make myself enjoy THIS present day... because I am alive and well today...

Okay ... here goes ... I am determined to love this Monday because I made it through last week and the weekend .... despite being hit by one that did not care enough to even look back and check after I fell on all fours with the contents of my pocketbook spilled in the middle of the street my knees all busted open as I grope frantically to pick my stuff up INCLUDING my lip-gloss as the lights change on both sides and now traffic is coming at me and some arse is blowing the horn as an elderly woman is trying to help me to my feet .. gotta love it... I am down.. I am hurt .. yet I was determined to gather my sh#t INCLUDING my lip-gloss ... my hit and run was long gone as I composed myself and walk the rest of the way to the bank and back to my car ... my knees stung but otherwise I was okay ... glad that nothing was broken... then on Saturday we went to Queens NY for my dearest uncle Memorial Service... by then it was all I could do to walk without a limp ... ahhhhhhhh VANITY ME.... but I managed ...it was not all that bad until SUNDAY ... and Today MONDAY ... OUCHHHHHHHHHH!!!! EVERYTHING hurts to sit HURTS ... STIFFNESS AND DISCOLORATION AND ACHES AND PAINS ALL OVER ... HECK I MISSED MY RUN ... YESTERDAY AND THIS MORNING ... I even forced myself to go to Zumba yesterday and had to sit down....and now my neck is stiff too... I need to get out of here and get a ho****er bottle and some cold compresses and get my arse to bed ...but IT IS A CRAZY MONDAY.... 

I am determined to love THIS Monday .... for so many little things.... because I was able to open my eyes first thing in the morning ... alive and well despite the aches and pains... because I was able to reach into my closet and pick out another tiny outfit and hop on the scale as I do daily and am STILL maintaining with NO REGAIN ... woot! I am loving Monday... because I got off the phone with my beautiful sister back home and she is hanging in there and responding well to her treatment WOOT I am loving Monday... thank you Lord for soooooooooooooooo many miracles....

So I made an empowerment collage of me today and my weekend...

 

and because at 5 years post op I could reach into my closet and just slide into this tiny AK outfit and it fits just like it did before ... I am loving this Monday...



I even rocked an XS 2 piece my DD gave me as a gift and I had not worn... well it was warm on yesterday and now there is a downpour....



I love love love this comfy top I am wearing today...



Because my left side is stiff ... I have a crick in my neck... my arse hurts... my knees are scabbing over and sore and I have the biggest bruise on my arse ... but I am sitting here giving a shout-out to all my cyberfriends ... I AM LOVING MONDAY!!!
Chillaxing over the weekend ....



My encouragement collage last week...



my week in pictures last week...
 

On my way to Queens NY for a celebration of my uncle's (RIP) life...



My first cousins (our dads are brothers) and I ... it was awesome meeting up with family members from across the globe ... we did not cry... we celebrated his passing with joy ... he sowed seeds of happiness for the 84 years that we were able to share him ... I remember him with a smile..



HAPPY MONDAY TO ALL!!!!! MAKE IT A HAPPY ONE ... WE ARE ALIVE AND WELL TODAY ... OTHERWISE WE WOULD NOT BE SITTING HERE READING/WRITING OR SOCIALIZING WITH EACH OTHER ... THERE ARE BLESSINGS... BIG AND SMALL EVERYWHERE ... I am taking mine in in small increments ... as long as I don't sulk and dwell too much on why Mondays are as manic as the song I will be A-okay....

My empowerment tool ... a picture a day keeps the pounds and the inches away!!.. it works for me ... I asked for HEALTH and MOBILITY ... and I got just that ... WOOT .... 5 co-morbidities in remission ... a mindset and a lifestyle change ... I am having fun and enjoying the ride of my life ... with all the ups and downs and go arounds...Thanks for allowing me to share...  

OMG I can't believe you got hit, how terrible and the fact that you are all positive and **** you probably bumped your head and are now in shock.  lol  Oh wait that would be me, you on the other hand always find the good side, I myself would be nursing my poor aching ass for all it was worth but not you.  Thats why you inspire me to be a better person, I do try, not always successful of course but I try.

Hope you feel better soon and you look good even if your **** is all broken down. lol

Love & Hugs

 Girl please ... I am struggling to stay positive on this one .. that jerk kept on riding and if the contents of my pocketbook were not spilled all over the street I am crazy enough to have gone chasing after him ... but I had to scoop my stuff up.. bankrolls, wallet, compact, lip gloss, cell phone, IPad all in the street ... and NOT in the best of areas either as there was no parking and I had to park on the corner of Davenport and walk across Howard ... a MESS.....go figure I was going to make my deposits at my next stop too ... had it been windy I would have been royally screwed ...

In the middle of the crosswalk with the lights changing and cars coming at me I had to do a quick joint eval to make sure I had no fractures and allow the good Samaritan to help me to my feet ... I WAS FURIOUS .... major damage done to my knees with blood dripping from them where I went down hard with all I had on the concrete and a HUGE bruise on my hip and left butt cheek ... He came from behind .. we did not even see him .. it startled me so bad I don't know what part of the bike hit me .. but whatever it was it hit hard and the concrete had no mercy on my knees ... My head is fine but for some reason I have like a stiff neck today and pains shooting up my back ...

Heading home to the hot tub in an hour ...  

That really sounds horrible, I hope you are feeling better after the hot bath.  I can imagine how mad you were, I would have been throwing my stuff down the street after him.  I have a terrible temper that way, how can someone knowingly hit someon and knock them down and not even stop and try to help.  That's just cold and heartless.  I fell off a curb once trying to take a picture and walked backward off it, I fell hard and I was so embarassed, I couldn't even get myself up.  Strangers had to help me, my ex husband just stood there as if he were in a daze, I was more upset I broke my camera then any.  But that is nothing like what you just went through.  I feel so sorry for you.  I hope karma comes back to bite the jerk that hit you.

 Wow ... that was a bad fall you took and you broke you camera too ... I would be so upset... I was too preoccupied gathering myself and my stuff .. I am just glad nothing broke ... I am counting on Karma to bite his arse too.  I am less stiff this morning than I was yesterday but I still did not go running ... my knees are still painful with those huge scrapes and bruises...

"So what is so good about Mondays????? may I ask???" - What is good is that it eventually ends and I get to go home. HAHA. Oh yeah another thing is that there's only one per week. I'm thankful for my job, yada yada. OK. Sorry, I can't like Mondays. I've tried, I really have. I just can't unless it's a holiday.

I hope you feel better. That is terrible that happened to you. People are so thoughtless! I'm glad you are ok.

 Thank you Kay ... I really really REAAAALLY have a hard time liking Mondays ... it is good that it does eventually end like you say LOL...

I love Monday's.  It gives me a chance to start fresh for the week.  I also am happy I still have my job, even though I would want to stay home but I sure would miss the income.  Mondays are also my Yoga day and I love Yoga.  I figure Monday's are coming if I want them or not so I might as well do something positive with them.

 
Awesome!!! These words of yours will certainly help in my determination to see the good in this Monday"  It gives me a chance to start fresh for the week. " and "I figure Monday's are coming if I want them or not so I might as well do something positive with them."

I'm reaching....My daughter was born on a Monday. LOL!